MONyog is the best out-of-the-box GUI monitoring tool for MySQL that I have seen. It "just works." As promised, getting up and running quickly is easy, and having a centralized location for monitoring is very useful. The graphs are beautiful and the statistics that are graphed are useful time-savers.

The biggest difference between MySQL's Enterprise Monitor and MONyog is that MONyog is agentless. At Pythian, we have many clients with differing security requirements. Requiring a daemon process to be running is not something we currently do, and it might be a hard sell for some clients. Even if every client was amenable to it, making sure the daemon is up and running on each MySQL server is tedious. Note that agentless operation works for every feature, including log analysis as well as operating system statistics.

I first came across SQLyog when I found myself frustrated by the web-based MySQL management package that I was using at the time. I saw SQLyog mentioned in a blog and thought it had to be worth taking a look at so I downloaded the demonstration version available at the time: it was around 2005.

I was extremely impressed by the software and recommended it to my employer. The software was duly purchased and employed in the management of eight servers at their data centre in the Dockland, London. The company had major changes on the horizon though and I, along with most of the rest of the developers, were made redundant a few years later.

Not to be outdone, I purchased my personal copy of SQLyog Ultimate in 2008 because I could see the value in the tool for my own developments. I only have a single server, but I occasionally create 'virtual' machines containing servers for testing purposes. SQLyog is a happy with a connection to the localhost, the remote server over SSH, or a virtual server - it just does the job without any hassle.

My favourite features have to be the redundant index analyser, for when other people send databases to me, and the SQL formatter, for when I dump a load of auto-generated SQL out of a module I'm writing.

Thank you Webyog for these marvellous tools - they save me hours of hard slog... and stop premature balding I'm sure!

I actually had never heard of the SQLyog tool before, but did a search and found the trial version. Once I started using it, I found it super easy to use and intuitive as well; I bought it right away. I have used other tools for MySQL db interfaces, but SQLyog Enterprise is probably one of the easiest to use. It is quick to connect, and the tool is layed out in such a way that I can quickly get things done. I don't have to waste a lot of time trying to hunt around for the right functions to get things done such as Altering tables or changing data types of columns. Most things are a right click away, which is a great feature. I also love the tree interface on the left that lets you see at a glance what the data structure looks like so I can quickly find the table/column I need to work on.
I found that I was able to get a MySQL database up and running in less than 10 minutes. The configuration and login process is a snap and quite intuitive. This is one of those products that should be in every Webmaster's toolkit!

I used SQLyog for administration of my girlfriend's web shop (http://www.tuttlemousie.com), because normally only phpMyAdmin is available for hosted websites and it just doesn't do the job properly. But we found a hosting provider that allows database administration from a specific IP address, and were thus able to use SQLyog Enterprise. SQLyog has a simple user interface that my girlfriend can use to look at the data, even though she is not a computer professional.

I bought SQLyog Enterprise Ed. because I work as a solution architect, with a background as database and web- developer, product manager, system consultant and database administrator. Therefore I have worked with SQL server and Oracles administration tools and SQLyog Enterprise works just as well. Looking at table data is every simple and the interface is more responsive than many other similar tools I have worked with. I used SQLyog Enterprise Ed. for migrating some large Access databases to MySQL and as a fast developer and administration tool. I come from a Unix background and like to know the command line parameters to work with databases, but if SQLyog Enterprise is available I prefer it, to speed up development. My project with developing the course administration, document and record management system Portfolio (http://www.kursus.biz) for Learning Lab at the Copenhagen Business School has succeeded. I still use SQLyog Enterprise in my daily development of the product and recommend others to take a look at this great tool.